blind idealism as you call it.It’s a just cause for my homeland, a fight for the sake of those I love: my children, grandchildren, parents, siblingsneighbours, my Tausug brethren who'sbeen suffering in silence for so long.

Oppression breeds pain and should not reign in a land of peaceful people.

I may not live longer in this world, and I know I will die as people do.But this I say today: I will fight for peace 'til my last breath

I fight for peace, but alwaysin peace. Nothing good can be achieved by raging war, and countering war with war. With violence comes nothing butmore violence. This is not what Tausugs want.

Peace is as common as candies. Anyone has the right to embrace peace.Like my elders before me, I’ve been wanting peace. Amid this war that’s seemingly endlessI caught a glimpse of it. It exists, I know. We’ll find this piece of peace soon.But only when we do so together,and in peace.